Substance Abuse Treatment for High Risk Chronic Pain Patients on Opioid Therapy

Chronic back pain patients are often dismissed from a pain center or a primary care practice
when they are noncompliant with opioid therapy, instead of being offered treatments to
reduce misuse and to improve compliance. Unfortunately, there are few treatment resources
for such patients. This study seeks to remedy that problem, with the goal of reducing the
rate of prescription opioid misuse among noncompliant patients through the use of novel
tracking, education, and counseling interventions.